Toy building



UNITED STATES.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,784, dated April 15, 1884.'

Application tiled September 2B, 1883. (No model.)

fo @ZZ whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. REED, of Leominster, in the county of 'Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Toy Buildings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in whichg Figure l is a toy representation upon atablet of the general features of the front of the Capitol of the United States, with'a lighted lamp located at its rear. Fig. 2 is a perspec tive View of the four sides of the Capitol building with gaslights located therein. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of a portion of Fig. 1, with a strip of colored material extending across the Windows. Fig. 4' is a section on the line .t .t of Fig. 3.

My present invention has special reference to tof,r representations of the Capitol of the United States, for which an application for Letters'Patent made by nie has been allowed; and this `invention consists in providing said representations, whether made in one or more portions, of one or more blocks, boxes, tablets, card, pasteboard, Sie., with openings corresponding to the doors, Windows, Src.. of 'the original building, and with one or more open ings (if desired) through which to exhibit panoramic or other views' or lessons, in combination with one or more gas or electric-1ight burners or lamps so located that the light `therefrom may be seen through said openings or objects in front of them, and thereby present the appearance of the original building when illuminated, as during the sessions of Congress; and my invention also consists, in combination with such toy representations of the United States Capitol provided with openings and with means of illuminating the saine, of one or more strips of White or colored transparent material, in order to produce the appearance oi' different-colored lights, and thereby to enhance the beautiful effect of the illuminat-ion.

In Fig. l of the drawings the tablet A is intended to represent on its exterior the architecture of the front of the original Capitol building, and is provided with windows a,

doors b, and with a central opening, c, through which to exhibit movable views. At the back of the windows are located strips or sheets d, (seen dotted,) of transparent material of any desired color, and at the rear of the tablet is a lamp, e, which, when lighted, will shed its rays through the Windows and interposed transparentmaterial and present to the spectator in front of the tablet an appearance sin1i lar to that of the United States Capitols corresponding portion when lighted during the evening sessions of Congress, orwhen illuminated by diii'erent-colored lights.

The transparent material through which the light sheds its rays may consist of sheets of gelatine, ltissue-paper, mica, 85e., of any desired color.

In Fig. 2 the interior of the toT building is provided with a series of gasburners, h, which, when lighted, cast their rays through the col ored or White strips and windows, doors, or panoramic views in i'ront of them, and produce a beautiful effect.

' The toy may be composed of one or more portions of any suitable material-such as one or more boxes, blocks, cards, strips of Veneering, sheets or blocks of glass, Src., such as are described in the allowed application for toy Capitol of theUnited States referred to-the exterior of the toy preferably bearing the represent-ations of the entire or principal portion of the architecture of the original.

The use of the strips or sheets d may be dispensed with, and the light shine directly through the said openings; but I prefer the strips, as thereby I can better obtain the effeet of the different-colored lights above referred to.

I claim-- 1. A toy consisting of one or more portions bearing the representation of a part or the whole oi' the exterior of the Capitol of the United States, and provided with openings to represent doors, AWindows, &c., or apertures through which to exhibit pictures, panoramio or other views or lessons, in combination with a light located behind the saine, substantially as described. f

2. One or more strips or sheets of White or colored transparent material, in combination IOO Iwith u toy representation of the Whole or a from the outside, as and for the purpose set portion of the exterior of the Capitol of the i'forth. 1o Y United States7 provided with openings to rep- Witness my hand this 19th day of Septemresent doors, Windows7 Ste., or other aperber,1883.

5 tures through which to exhibit pictures7 pano- WILLIAM S. REED.

rami@ or other views or lessons, and with a In presence ofgas, eleotrie7 lmnp, or other light so located as N. W. STEARNS,

to be seen through the openings or apertures CEAS. HALL ADAMS. 

